(A) Park hours.
(1) Park and recreation facilities are open to the public from dawn to dusk, unless otherwise posted.
(2) No person shall refuse or fail to leave a park and recreation facility upon being directed to leave by the Director or the Director's designee, or by a peace officer.
(3) No person shall be or remain in a park and recreation facility after or before scheduled hours as posted, except as follows:
(a) With the written permission of the Director;
(b) When using a sidewalk or pathway within the facility as a transportation corridor;
(c) When engaged in fishing at a fishing pier;
(d) When engaged in launching or retrieving a boat at the Antioch Boat Ramp.
(4) The Director, Police Chief, or their designees, may close any park and recreation facility to the public when it is determined that such closure will protect the public health, safety and/or welfare or is necessary to protect such facility from misuse or destruction. If possible, notice thereof shall be posted in conspicuous locations in the affected facility.
(5) No person, group or organization shall claim exclusive use of any or all of a park and recreation facility without the written permission of the Director.
(B) Bicycles/skateboards. No person shall ride or operate a bicycle or mountain bike in any park and recreation facility in a negligent, unsafe or reckless manner or in any way that endangers the life, limb or property of any person. Bicycles must be walked within all park sites when other park users are present.
(1) Pathways and roadways designated for bicycle use shall be used as designated.
(2) No skateboards, roller blades, roller skates or bicycles are permitted on tennis courts or other areas not designed for such use. They must not be operated in an unsafe manner within all park sites.
(3) The public agency having ownership or control over any trail, path, lane, way or walkway referred to in these guidelines may, by posting an appropriate sign or signs, further restrict the use of such trail, path, lane, way or walkway by persons riding bicycles or other non-motorized vehicles or devices, or by equestrians, and when any such sign is posted no person shall disobey any prohibition, restriction, direction or other regulation expressed thereon.
(C) Firearms and fireworks. No person shall bring to any park and recreation facility a weapon, air-gun, bow and arrows, firecrackers, bombs, torpedoes, rockets or any other type of fireworks or pyrotechnics.
(D) Active sports use. All facilities are available on a first-come, first-served basis (exception: permitted users). “Permitted” users have priority to the facilities assigned by the Leisure Services Division. All facilities are not to be used during rainy day or wet field conditions (as determined by Director or designee). Park users damaging turf areas during wet field conditions may be subject to restoration costs. Permitted groups are required to call standby city staff for wet field conditions or be subject to restoration cost. Facilities are only used for the purpose they were developed, i.e., tennis courts, tennis play only. Bocce courts for bocce play only, unless specially permitted.
(E) Amplified sound. The use of any system for amplifying sounds, whether for speech or music or otherwise, is prohibited in any park unless an exclusive use permit is first obtained. The Director, upon granting a permit for use of any amplified sound system, may impose reasonable conditions concerning the location and position of the sound system, and the maximum decibel level, in order to minimize the amount of amplified sound audible in adjacent park areas and neighborhoods.
AMPLIFIED MUSIC shall mean music projected and/or transmitted by electronic equipment including, but not limited to, amplifiers, loudspeakers, or any similar device.
AMPLIFIED SPEECH shall mean speech projected and/or transmitted by electronic equipment including, but not limited to, amplifiers, loudspeakers or any similar device.
(F) Golf. No person shall play or practice golf or use golf clubs in any area of a park not designated for such use.
(G) Hardball play. No hardball play is allowed within city parks, except for those areas designated for that type of use. (Exception: permitted organized youth groups with proper equipment and supervision).
(H) Model airplanes. No person shall operate any motor-driven airplane, rocket or other flying model in a park.
(I) Loitering/public behavior. Loitering in public parks or recreational facilities is prohibited. Riotous, offensive, threatening, or indecent conduct, or abusive, threatening, profane or indecent language is prohibited in parks and recreational areas.
(J) Sale of goods–exhibitions. No person shall sell any goods and no person shall conduct or maintain any show, performance, concert, place of amusement or exhibition, or station or place any stand, cart or vehicle for the transportation, sale or display of any such goods, wares, merchandise, article or thing on any park or recreation area, without first having obtained written permission to do so from the Director or his/her designee and securing the necessary city and/or state permits.
(K) Advertising. No person shall place or affix any handbills, circulars, pamphlets, or advertisement to any tree, fence, shrub or structure without written approval from the Director.
(L) Tennis courts. Tennis courts are for tennis play only. Tennis shoes must be worn on the courts. The following rules of play are to be observed: One set for singles; two sets for doubles. Doubles teams have a priority. Rotation is by order of arrival. There is no reserving of courts. (Exception: tournaments and lessons by reservation permit only). Skateboards, bikes, pets, roller blades and skates, food and drink is prohibited on the tennis courts.
(M) Restrooms, dressing rooms and washrooms. Men shall not use any restroom or washroom facility for women, and women shall not use any restroom or washroom facility for men. This shall not apply to children under six years of age accompanied by an adult. No person shall loiter in or about restroom or washroom facilities, nor shall any person use such facilities for purposes inconsistent with their intended purpose.
(Ord. 915-C-S, passed 2-27-96)